Russia’s top diplomat has earned the respect of his colleagues both at home and abroad for his professionalism and the love of the public – mostly due unexpected gaffes rarely heard from people in his profession.
The face of the Kremlin’s diplomacy, Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov, the longest-serving member of the Russian government, turns 70 today. Starting out as a low-ranking diplomat at the Soviet Embassy in Sri Lanka in 1972 fresh out of the USSR’s diplomatic school, MGIMO, Lavrov worked his way up to becoming the head of the Russian Foreign Ministry in 2004.
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